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Offline karajorma

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PC Gamer mention us again.
Well I don't know how new this is to most of you but I never saw a picture of this article :)



Seems to do a much better job in terms of errors than the last one. I suppose refering to the Ravana as cruiser could be considered as simply putting things in RL terms for those who don't play FS2 rather than an actual error. 

Although I do wish they had pointed here rather than VW. Maybe HLP was down when they were looking for links.
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Re: PC Gamer mention us again.
Wow.

So much exposure lately.

 
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He called cyclops torpedoes :no:

Cool nonetheless
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Aren't they "Cyclops Torpedoes"?


 

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why volitionwatch?
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Probably because it's the fourth search result on google for "freespace 2", falling behind official games sites, and HLP appears nowhere on the first page.
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Why does it say in the mini FS2 thing on the left, that FS2 was made in 2002. :p
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I also like how the Anuket is supposedly a capital ship (although, admittedly, it does look the part in that screenshot). :p Still, great article.  That's the exact same way that I felt when playing "Slaying Ravana."  It really reminds me of when I first played through FS1; my younger brother would watch me and act as a wingman, calling out my shield and hull status and the damage of any escorts.  Good times. :)

 

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Exactly how I felt after Slaying Ravana, I swear I held my breath through the entire mission :)
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the box in the lower left corner of the page where it says "the story so far". i think he is playing through the whole campaign and he is reporting how far he has come. it hink this not the last time freespace 2 will get exposure in that magazine
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the box in the lower left corner of the page where it says "the story so far". i think he is playing through the whole campaign and he is reporting how far he has come. it hink this not the last time freespace 2 will get exposure in that magazine

Nah, it's there as a recap of the games' history.  Not that it precludes further mentions of the game, of course.

 

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Nice to see the accuracy level of reporters is so high. :rolleyes: Makes you wonder...
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Usually they're paid to do good reviews. When you aren't paying them, I guess you have to settle for what you get.

 

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Nice to see the accuracy level of reporters is so high. :rolleyes: Makes you wonder...
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It really makes you wonder how often errors like those present here are made across the board in their magazine, and others like it.

 

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why volitionwatch?

Because we're da p1mps ;) (or were to be more precise :p )
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Usually they're paid to do good reviews. When you aren't paying them, I guess you have to settle for what you get.
That's as maybe.. but it kinda implies that they're incapable of being accurate if there's no money involved. Heck... if I played some game I'd never played before (lets say Eve for example) and I was writing an unpaid review of my starting moments in-game... I'm fairly sure I could get the terminology right.

If it's going to print, I doubt an extra half an hour to check the accuracy of the terms is going to kill anyone.

That said.. whatever, this kind of thing really doesn't affect me that much.

 

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Re: PC Gamer mention us again.
Usually they're paid to do good reviews. When you aren't paying them, I guess you have to settle for what you get.
That's as maybe.. but it kinda implies that they're incapable of being accurate if there's no money involved. Heck... if I played some game I'd never played before (lets say Eve for example) and I was writing an unpaid review of my starting moments in-game... I'm fairly sure I could get the terminology right.

If it's going to print, I doubt an extra half an hour to check the accuracy of the terms is going to kill anyone.

That said.. whatever, this kind of thing really doesn't affect me that much.

To be fair, neither 'cruiser' nor 'torpedo' are really that important mistakes, because they also have clear meaning in the cultural lexicon; and it's more important to relate game concepts to that than use the exact terms from the game.  Although getting the release year wrong is rather daft.

 

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Torpedo isn't even a mistake. The cyclops is an anti-cruiser torpedo.
actualy, mabye not.
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Won't do us any harm to get the year wrong. And more people will probably try a game from 2002 than one from 1999 so it may actually pursuade more people to try it.

Plus they even mention the SCP in passing so we shouldn't complain :)
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